2 Kings 6:30-32

International Standard Version

³⁰ When the king heard what the woman said, he ripped his garments as he continued walking along the city^[a] wall. As the people watched, all of a sudden they noticed he was wearing sackcloth underneath his clothes, inside next to his flesh! ³¹ He said, “May God do to me—and more also!—if the head of Shaphat’s son Elisha remains on his shoulders^[b] today!”

³² Meanwhile, Elisha was sitting in his house, along with the elders, when the king^[c] sent a man to kill him,^[d] but before the messenger arrived, Elisha^[e] told the elders, “Are you watching how this descendant of murderers has ordered my head be cut off? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it to shut them out! Don’t you hear the sound of his master’s feet right behind him?”